Exposure to robotic virtual agent affects adoption of intentional stance

Parenti, Lorenzo; Marchesi, Serena; Belkaid, Marwen; Wykowska, Agnieszka

doi:10.31234/osf.io/2b8kx

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“…The scale ranges from 0 to 100, where 0 corresponds to totally mechanistic choices (i.e., Design Stance), and 100 to totally mentalistic choices (i.e., Intentional Stance; Marchesi et al, 2019). There has been a series of studies conducted with adults using the IST to investigate the factors which might affect whether individuals are more likely to perceive robots as intentional agents, thus adopting the Intentional Stance, or as mechanical artefacts, thus adopting the Design Stance (Marchesi et al, 2022;Parenti, Marchesi, Belkaid & Wykowska,…”

Section: 2operationalizing the Intentional Stancementioning

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Does Exposure to Technological Knowledge Modulate the Adoption of the Intentional Stance Towards Humanoid Robots in Children?

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Roselli²,

Wykowska³

2023

Preprint

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Humanoid robots are being increasingly employed in educational and therapeutic settings with children. Thus, it calls for examining whether exposure to technological knowledge about the mechanical workings of humanoid robots can affect children’s perception of robots as agents with intentionality (i.e., adoption of the Intentional Stance). In this study, we presented a group of school children with a two-hour theoretical and practical workshop focused on programming robotic components. In two sessions, namely before (Pre Session) and after the workshop (Post Session), we administered the InStance Test (IST), to assess whether children’s likelihood of adopting the Intentional Stance was modulated by the knowledge children acquired about robots during the workshop. Results showed no significant difference in the IST scores across sessions, indicating that exposure to technological knowledge did not modulate the likelihood of adopting the Intentional Stance across the sessions. These findings suggest that brief exposure to knowledge about the mechanisms behind a humanoid robot is not sufficient to modulate children’s perceptions of humanoid robots.

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confidence: 99%

Does Exposure to Technological Knowledge Modulate the Adoption of the Intentional Stance Towards Humanoid Robots in Children?

O’Reilly¹,

Roselli²,

Wykowska³

2023

Preprint

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“…Such expectations may be related to high‐level cognitive, social, and emotional capabilities, but also to lower‐level properties. For instance, robots may be expected to exhibit mechanistic movements rather than smooth motion trajectories and how people perceive the robot may depend on whether these expectations are met (Ghiglino, Willemse, De Tommaso, & Wykowska, 2021; Parenti, Marchesi, Belkaid, & Wykowska, 2021b). As suggested by previous studies, robots’ anticipated behavior can be influenced by a variety of factors such as their appearance, social setting, prior experience, and familiarity (Kahn et al., 2011; Kwon, Jung, & Knepper, 2016).…”

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Differences in Social Expectations About Robot Signals and Human Signals

Parenti,

Belkaid,

Wykowska

2023

Cognitive Science

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In our daily lives, we are continually involved in decision‐making situations, many of which take place in the context of social interaction. Despite the ubiquity of such situations, there remains a gap in our understanding of how decision‐making unfolds in social contexts, and how communicative signals, such as social cues and feedback, impact the choices we make. Interestingly, there is a new social context to which humans are recently increasingly more frequently exposed—social interaction with not only other humans but also artificial agents, such as robots or avatars. Given these new technological developments, it is of great interest to address the question of whether—and in what way—social signals exhibited by non‐human agents influence decision‐making. The present study aimed to examine whether robot non‐verbal communicative behavior has an effect on human decision‐making. To this end, we implemented a two‐alternative‐choice task where participants were to guess which of two presented cups was covering a ball. This game was an adaptation of a “Shell Game.” A robot avatar acted as a game partner producing social cues and feedback. We manipulated robot's cues (pointing toward one of the cups) before the participant's decision and the robot's feedback (“thumb up” or no feedback) after the decision. We found that participants were slower (compared to other conditions) when cues were mostly invalid and the robot reacted positively to wins. We argue that this was due to the incongruence of the signals (cue vs. feedback), and thus violation of expectations. In sum, our findings show that incongruence in pre‐ and post‐decision social signals from a robot significantly influences task performance, highlighting the importance of understanding expectations toward social robots for effective human–robot interactions.

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Exposure to robotic virtual agent affects adoption of intentional stance

Cited by 2 publications

References 15 publications

Does Exposure to Technological Knowledge Modulate the Adoption of the Intentional Stance Towards Humanoid Robots in Children?

Does Exposure to Technological Knowledge Modulate the Adoption of the Intentional Stance Towards Humanoid Robots in Children?

Differences in Social Expectations About Robot Signals and Human Signals

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